Sunday, January 20, 2013

First Flight

A little picture prompt...

All
my life I'd dreamed that I could fly, that I was specially endowed, or
maybe just privy to some secret that no one else knew. Yea, dreamed; I
never actually believed it. Once I was awake the whole thing seemed so
silly to me; almost embarrassing, even though I never spoke of it.

Then
one day I was walking in this field near Lake Phalen and I saw this
girl crying and I walked to a spot nearby and offered to lend an ear,
from a distance of course, so as not to scare her. She looked up and
smiled, and then she said "that's very nice of you" and I said " not
really; you know, it's just do unto others and if I was as sad as you
I'd like someone to offer to comfort me."

Well
then she stood up and cocked her head like she was listening to
something for a minute and I strained to hear what it was but all I
heard was the breeze moving through the heather. Then she looked
straight into my eyes and said "I bet you dream about flying like I do".

Yea,
weird, just like that. Sure it was a little creepy and I got goosebumps
and all, but she was so pretty and her voice was so calm and her smile
was so, you know, gentle, like my mom's when she was alive. So I just
answered her without asking how she knew. I just said "yea, all the
time, and in my dreams I actually do fly, sometimes by flapping my arms
and sometimes I just kinda will it you know? Like I just think 'fly' and
up I go, always slow and steady like I'm in no big hurry."

I
half expected her to laugh. She had to think I was some kind of idiot
or like a little kid or something. But she didn't laugh. She walked over
to me and reached out her hand and once I'd taken it she gripped it
real tight and said "close your eyes and think about raising yourself
off the ground."

Well
yea, my heart was beating a mile a minute and it was hard to
concentrate what with her touching me and all but I did think as hard as
I could about levitating like she said and then she said "fly with me"
and I said "sure" like some dolt.

"Open
your eyes" she said, so I did and wow, we were actually both floating
in midair. I should have been scared shitless but the second I started
thinking that she said "look at me" so I did and I calmed down right
away. She said "cmon" and she bobbed her head over her shoulder like she
wanted us to go that way and I nodded because it seemed like the only
answer to have and we started moving forward. It was the coolest
feeling, I almost wet my pants right there but I diidn't. I was flying. I
was flying! Oh my God, I WAS FLYING!